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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1925
Page
4
Stamp collectors in London bid high for Hungary’s first eight sport themed stamps. Prices doubled the postal value in Budapest with premium funds aiding Hungarian sports bodies. Designs show fencing skating skiing hurdling marching scouts and a football match with diving rowing and swimming image.
James Quin of Lenox spent Saturday in town attending to business and visiting among friends, enjoying a social day with local residents.
South Dakota, first to adopt initiative and rural credits, weighs a one house legislature proposed by Sen. Robert Dowdell. The plan would dissolve the 46 member Senate and 108 member House, forming a unicameral body of 16 to 21 members meeting as needed.
Roy Chapman Andrews leads the Third Asiatic Expedition of the New York Museum of Natural History aided by the American Asiatic Association. The team camps 1000 miles northwest of Kalgan aiming to rediscover dinosaur eggs and seek fossilized traces of prehistoric humans in Mongolian and Chinese Turkestan rocks.
In Yeo Nayarit Mexico near the Cucaracha mine miners unearth artifacts tied to Spaniard owners a century and a quarter after burial. A well preserved broad brimmed felt hat resembling Friar Tuck is found along with fine blankets and garments suggesting European origin. Legend says gold and silver bars were buried by retreating Spaniards after 1812.
New York June 6 The Bowling Green Neighborhood Association funds a decade long effort to integrate Wall Street night and day populations. The program unites 23 nationalities into a more homogeneous district through corporate and individual backing from about 1 000 firms and residents.
In downtown Manhattan a multiethnic neighborhood thrives with a four story headquarters on West Street a $500000 riverfront playground nine youth clubs and 25 social groups. Immigrant leaders from Irish Austrians Syrians Greeks and others note fading racial lines through shared work at Wall Street firms supporting daily life with earnings around $1600 per family and a broad array of health clinics classes and services.
E C Matthews an American archeologist notes parallels between western Mexican relics and ancient Egyptian art. He reports discoveries of weapons domestic items and grotesque deities as evidence of uncharted region archaeology. A Veracruz cave find of Aztec idols prompted tours and an Orizaba university expedition to study the area.
A conference led by Governor Vera with Sinaloa mayors approved a state wide road plan in Chicacan to Mazatlan connecting Culla ean to the sea. The project emphasizes bridges over rivers and aims to align with efforts in Mexico City and across California and Arizona to create a coast to coast auto route. The goal is easier year round travel from Nogales south along the coast.
A Japanese salvage team, led by expert divers, prepares to sail to Port Said to recover the government transport Yasuka Maru sunk in the Mediterranean during World War I with gold bullion valued at 500000 dollars. They also aim to salvage the British liner Egypt sunk near Marseilles with one million dollars aboard.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Larson returned to their Chariton home this morning after visiting at the home of H J Swanker 403 West Monroe Street and Mrs Frank Larson 307 North Vine Street They were accompanied by Mrs Larson sister Miss Inez Swanker who will stay a few days.
Mrs. Carl DeFord of Shannon City returned home after shopping and socializing here. Paul G. McBride of Los Angeles, visiting with Mrs. McBride and Mrs. Currier, plans to go to Omaha Grand Island and Salt Lake City on business before homeward bound. Mrs. McBride to stay ten weeks. Mrs. Jack Hood and family left for Iowa City for commencement where son Donald is in the State university graduate class. Keith Richter, back from Town University, resumes violin instruction. Office hours at 1006 N Oak Street.
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